Lorraine at home

…All art is ultimately social; that which agitates and that which prepares the mind for slumber. The writer is deceived who thinks that he has some other choice. The question is not whether one will make a social statement in one’s work—but only what the statement will say, for if it says anything at all, it will be social.

Lorraine Hansberry at her typewriter in her Greenwich Village apartment. Photo by David Attie.David Attie photographed Hansberry to accompany a 1960 Vogue magazine article. One of the images in the series is part of the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute.